Guitar Band Highlife V

Guitar Band Highlife V

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1971 - Soul to Soul Festival - Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, the Staple Singers, Roberta Flack to Accra

Disco records became more popular bands

Stan Plange, leader of the Uhuru Professional Dance band “The kids who should be digging our music don’t want to know. They just want the disco stuff”

All major record labels pull out of Ghana

Most recorded music moved abroad.

John Collins opened the Bokoor mini-studio outside Accra to record and release cassettes two hit compilations recorded “The Guitar and the Gun”

1980’s

Musicians move to Nigeria, London, UK and Hamburg Germany